Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:20:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: dholland@cs.toronto.edu (David Holland) Cc: peter@netplex.com.au, bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) Message-ID: <199809250120.SAA04444@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <98Sep24.165248edt.37912-17305@qew.cs.toronto.edu> from David Holland at "Sep 24, 98 04:52:44 pm"
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David Holland writes: > My perspective on this is that disklabels and partitions are a > protozoic kind of file system -- essentially, that the way to think > about what needs to happen is that you need to mount `partitionfs' on > the device /dev/wd0. This `mount' then supplies the other wd0* devices. > (Whether it goes through the same code path as normal filesystem > mounts, or looks at all like them, is unimportant. Bear with me.) > > This view of the world has two immediate consequences: > 1) partition handling should be independent from disk drivers. > 2) probing for partitions becomes relatively straightforward. This is just the idea that is realized by SLICE. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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